"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo notice natural!"

Tokuichiro scratched his head vigorously. The information he got this time is not much, but there are still some things that make people feel that they are inconsistent.

"Where was the owner of that building, Sang Tian, ​​at that time?"

"Night sitting, it is said to be sitting meditation at night in the meditation hall."

"Anyone saw it?"

"Yes, but it's a bit suspicious. Hetian Dashan mentioned earlier, it is said that he also sat in the meditation hall at night at the same time, and the two young monks who were his followers were also together.

But... Changxin Sangtian was sitting facing the wall in the dark, so the three of Hetian didn't know if it was Changxin Sangtian himself. "

"Didn't you say hello?"

"You can't make a sound. Even coughing is forbidden in the so-called meditation hall. In just one hour of questioning, that's all you can understand."

"Umm...Damn...! What do you think, Touhou detective? Just say something like your impressions."

Tokuichiro, who had a headache more and more thinking about it, asked the detective who was his subordinate.

"Ask me...then I have a guess. The person who killed Kosaka Nianfu was Kuwata Tsunenobu, but the entire temple conspired to hide this matter."

"This... Is there any basis for you to say that!?"

"Kosaka is Naotui... that is, responsible for construction or renovation. Because it is an ancient temple, it costs a lot of money. Using this as an excuse, Nianfu Kosaka seems to have embezzled money from the temple.

But if you think about it carefully, will there be money to be embezzled in a temple without a donor?So the temple has some secrets that cannot be put on the table. "

If Qianli Temple really has any secrets, money is the most conspicuous suspicious point.

"Financial resources, if you don't have a benefactor, you can't do things. There are 36 monks who have no source of income at all. There must be a place where they can make money.

That is to say, Kosaka had mastered the secret money channel, and then his pocketing was revealed and condemned, but Kosaka's expression changed and he decided to reveal the secret. "

"So...was it silenced? It doesn't feel realistic..."

"I think it's more realistic than your claim that all the hot spring hotel staff commit crimes..."

Tokuichiro was a little embarrassed after hearing this, and he also understood that the theory that all members of the hot spring hotel committed a crime sounded unrealistic, but it was still a bit uncomfortable to be denied by other arguments like this.

And...he is not without grounds for denying the theory that all members of the temple are guilty.

"Actually... there is a suspected crime scene. Someone provided information and confirmed it with witnesses."

"what?"

"Someone saw the body on the side of the road, when the prisoner was still there, and he confessed that he killed himself."

If it is normal, this is a first-level testimony, and the case is equivalent to being solved straight to the point.

"But unfortunately...he didn't witness it. The witness was...a person with bad eyesight. It's not clear whether the corpse is Nenuo Kosaka.

Yeah, and that scene was on the other side of the mountain, too far away. "

In other words, it may be something else, but it feels very suspicious no matter what.

"But the prisoner seems to claim that he is a monk, and it was the night four days before the body was found. It is consistent with the day when Nianfu Kosaka disappeared."

"That's not right, Police Department Ashihara! Nomono Kosaka was still in the Enlightenment Hall of Senri-ji Temple at [-]:[-].

Even as a practicing monk, it is impossible to go to the other side of the mountain in one hour, two and ten minutes, let alone Kosaka Nianfu is 10 years old. "

"Hmm... It's true that it would take nearly five hours to take the train instead, which means that it's not Nenio Kosaka's body.

But you also said just now, if the monks are all accomplices, then their testimony cannot be trusted... ah!

Everyone in the temple is lying! ! "

Everyone in the temple is lying. It is not impossible. Assuming that only the testimony at the scene of the crime on the other side of the mountain is correct, it can be assumed that the crime happened at [-] o'clock in the evening. The witness met the prisoner suddenly. Just confessed.

But if he immediately notices that it was a misjudgment, and so does the aftermath, after the aftermath, the police think that what happened to the witnesses was just a hoax.

At this time, Toxiong's perjury was valid. Toxiong testified that Nianfu Kosaka was still in the territory of Senliji Temple around [-]:[-] pm.

The impossibility of traveling from the temple to the other side of the mountain in four to 10 minutes reinforces claims by witnesses that the dead body and the murderer monk were just a hoax.

In this way, the place where Nianfu Kosaka was killed was not a temple. In order to make other people think so, he put the body in Helian Tower.

"It takes about an hour or so from Senli-ji Temple to Helian Tower, which is enough time. Moreover, Toxiong is Kuwata's confidant, and Kosaka walked out of his Enlightenment Hall. He can say anything about this kind of thing!

Leaving aside the entire temple, it should be true that Kuwata Tsuneshin and Makimura Too were in collusion! "

After listening to his boss, based on his own conjecture, gradually push out the results that he felt convincing, the man called the Eastern Criminal Police smiled and said.

"Then...why is it on the tree in Helian Tower?"

"Eh?"

"If you want to hide the corpse, you can just abandon it in the mountains. If you want someone to find it, why put it on a tree?"

Chapter 840: Dawu

In order to hear clues about another case that happened on the other side of the mountain, Tokuichiro Weiming temporarily returned to the police station where he was.

"The wheat stalks found at the scene suggest that the person who abandoned the body was wearing straw sandals. The estimated time of death is from the evening of the day of disappearance to the next morning—according to the testimony of eyewitnesses, it can be concluded that it was around [-] o'clock in the evening of the day of disappearance.

The truth and falsehood of the victim's rumors and the investigation of Senriji Temple——. "

During the meeting, Tokuichiro Ashihara slumped on his seat, even if he knew these things, there would be no breakthrough.

After the meeting was over, he returned to Helian Tower again, to this mountain where all weirdos seemed to him.

"This incident is clearly related to my promotion... In the end, no matter who came to hinder me, even this mountain!"

At present, the first object of suspicion is Changxin Kuwata, but compared with testimony, the most difficult thing now is evidence, and oral testimony is too fragile.

"If you can find out and show him the stalks on the spot...that would be easy."

It was a bit difficult to walk on the mountain road. Tokuichiro really wanted to complain why the mountain road here was so difficult to walk. It was hard to imagine that the elderly and children could walk over it normally.

Having said that...before him there were already a bunch of kids who gave him a headache going up the mountain to the temple....

"Huh? What... Who is following?"

Tokuichiro Ashihara, who saw the figure when he turned his head, paused for a moment, and then saw a little girl in a kimono, who seemed out of place with this snow-covered mountain, and who was singing a strange song ….

"You... where are you from...?"

"Go back, don't go any further!"

At that time, he saw the girl's eyes like black holes, which should be an illusion caused by the shadow under the tree, but Tokuichiro still shivered subconsciously!

Could it be... is she the girl in kimono in the legend of this mountain! ?

However, immediately after, a voice stopped him. This voice was very familiar to Tokuichiro. It was the voice of the criminal police who had gone to Senriji Temple earlier than him.

"The Police Department of Weiming, and...someone was killed again!!"

"What! What did you say!?"

"Just... right at Senli Temple...!"

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Senliji Temple, about one to two hours ago, Kyoko Kigiri and others suddenly received an invitation, and the elder of Senliji Temple said that he wanted to meet them.

"Good evening......."

"Are you the elder... Mr. Taizen Onishi?"

The elder Daxi Taiquan, an old man who doesn't look like a fairy, but looks very easy to get close to.

"Although he is an elder, he is nothing more than an old man. That...where was Nianfu found...?"

"This one, the body was abandoned on a cypress tree in the courtyard of Helian Tower."

"Really? I see..."

"...do you think of anything?"

Onishi Yasumen's expression seemed to remind him of something, Kyoko Kirikiri continued to question him even though he was not hopeful.

"The cypress tree in front of the courtyard... Actually, the courtyard was built by the master of the old monk. The master of the old monk discovered the Qianli Temple 58 years ago, and it was also when the Helian Tower at that time commissioned the courtyard to be rebuilt.

Master used big trees to surround the pond and built rockery.I built a garden with a pond and spring, and after that, I found Senriji Temple in order to find a stone that would match the big tree. "

Fifty-eight years ago, something that seemed so long ago just by hearing it, would it have anything to do with this case?

Knowing in his heart that Kyoko Kigiri probably had nothing to do with it, he chose to continue listening.

"At that time, there was no one in the temple. After going down the mountain, I investigated and found no records. The master who was fascinated by this temple has been coming here often since then."

"So... did you find anything in the end?"

"There are only a few hanging paintings, which were sent to Helianlou later."

"Hanging picture...could it be the one with the strange cow!"

Moonlight Hara Meicai remembered the painting she saw hanging on the wall when she first arrived at Helian Tower, and she even criticized the crude painting in private.

"Has this benefactor seen it? It is a Zen antique called 'Ten Cows'. There were originally ten pictures, but now there are only eight left."

"Are the records about Senliji Temple... so important?"

"Because it is very old and very large, as long as you show evidence that you are the ancestor of a certain legal system, the style of the series of temples will rise.

Originally, eminent monks from all sects and sects would come to investigate, but the mountain became disfigured because of the earthquake.

After 30 years after its discovery, it was sold at a low price because it was excluded from sightseeing spots, so it was bought here.The old monk's master was supposed to take over here, but died on the way.

So the old monk who took over...has only been here for 28 years.The monks other than the old monk were sent here by various sects for the purpose of investigation. "

In other words, they were not all from the same sect at the beginning... No, according to what Monk Youxian said, there is no such thing as a sect here because they were not from the same sect at the beginning?

"What is the current elite method of Qianli Temple, can you tell us?"

Xiangzi Wuqie asked the biggest doubt that he found before, but faced with this question, the old monk in front of him did not evade in any way.

"Haven't you heard of it from Dashan or Juedan?"

"No......."

"Really, it will be exposed soon, those monks are really..."

Speaking of this, Daxi Taiquan's expression looked indescribably sad.

Is there something that makes him feel sad? Is it simply that other monks are hiding unnecessary things so it feels meaningless...?

However, Kyoko Kirikiri felt that something was wrong again. The old man in front of him... It didn't look like he was simply sighing about other and meaningless actions.

"In the beginning, everyone was sent here for the purpose of investigating, but——sometimes, everyone began to forget the purpose.

Is it impossible to get out from here...? "

Can't get out?

"That's why the old monk has been waiting for such an opportunity. If someone investigates, the truth of this temple will be exposed more or less.

Chang Xin said that this place will become a national treasure, that is, a national treasure. "

It sounds like a fairy tale, but how can a temple that not many people know about become a national treasure?

Even if it can be done, it should be after I don't know how many years.

"Then...does Mr. Kuwata Tsuneshin have good intentions for this police investigation?"

Ai Ge, who had been listening to the side, asked, not knowing whether she was asking casually, or if she was really interested in this matter.

"Chang Xin and Nianfu convinced everyone."

"Aren't those two people on bad terms?"

"Well, but only on this matter."

Kuwata Changshin's reason is already known. It seems that he wants to turn this temple into a national treasure.

"Why does Kosaka agree?"

"Because Nianfu wants to destroy this temple, that person is different from others, he doesn't like life here at all.

So could he be trying to expose this place to the world?

He can be said to be an interesting monk, who wants to deny everything, even the way of Buddha itself... He turned out to be an eminent monk in Kamakura, who was exiled here because he was alienated by others. "

"Does that mean he is a person who likes to argue?"

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